Motorola Xoom 2 Review ⇥

Motorola’s new tablet has a 1.2 GHz dual core processor, a gig of RAM, an IPS display (finally!) and 4G LTE speeds (along with more initialisms). So what does that get you? Sluggish scrolling, jittery animations, five hours of battery life and a stupid name in the US (“Droid Xyboard”). The entry fee for such an unrefined system? $700, unless you choose a 2-year contract. That’s $70 more than a 16 GB iPad with 3G.

On the plus side, the hardware is much better than the original Xoom, the cameras are decent, and Motorola is promising an upgrade to Ice Cream Sandwich. In the end, Vlad Savov still prefers the iPad 2.